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Sonic Manifesto ⚡

Capitalistic pursuits, avarice's thorns, pierce through the visionaries' rose-colored lenses, leaving the blockchain's public good to wither and wilt. There has always been a strong emphasis on staking and removing the complexities associated with it. Liquid staking has slowly evolved into a dominant winner in the staking space, attributable to its attempts at simplifying the staking experience for users. But this journey has been punctuated with cheap and rapacious tumults of protocols hungri

Sonic: The DeFi Kitchen Hackathon 🤩

ClayStack is on a mission to empower liquid staking users by offering a much simpler user experience to staking. The barriers to entry to staking may have reduced. But the overall experience is still falling behind. Introducing Sonic, a meta-aggregator for the entire liquid staking ecosystem that lets users with any liquid staking token get out of their positions easily, immediately, and at the closest 1:1 redemption rate! Sonic allows users to get in or out of the liquid staking token (LST) p

Introducing Sonic: The Future of Liquid Staking

The biggest barrier to entry to staking today is still user experience. Some PoS commandeers have used several tactics to solve it. But all of them have missed the most fundamental problem. The barrier to entry to staking has been reduced, but the barrier to exit? It has only increasingly harder to cross. And that is exactly what we are solving. For a smooth, capital-efficient, user-friendly experience for staking - we are introducing Sonic! What is it? A panacea for liquid stakers. A pavi

Get your spot on the ClayStack Whitelist!

Are you ready to be a part of something revolutionary? 🤩 ClayStack is launching a cutting-edge Exchange for liquid-staked assets, and you can be one of the first to test it out! 👀 However, access to the initial testnet is limited to those who can gain entry to the Whitelist. Don't miss your chance to be a part of history in the making. ClayStack__❔__Exchange is coming. Be one of the first to get a backdoor entry to use it and its exciting features…before it’s even rolled out into the market!

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Magnify #18: The ETH Withdrawals Conundrum 🤔

Ah, so you want to withdraw the fruits of your labour. The time has come. -Ethereum Staker, 2023 Withdrawals have been one of the core talking points within the Ethereum community. Over 1M in ETH rewards have accrued for all validators. And when the clock strikes Shanghai on Ethereum, they will be spewed out to the validators’ withdrawal address on the Execution Layer. In the words of the laborious Ethereum validator who began their journey back in 2020, it’s going to rain money. Ok, maybe not

ClayStack Matic V2: Breaking the Barriers 🤩

The new csMATIC v2 makes staking MATIC on Polygon frictionless. The new changes, brings unlimited staking and unstaking in a fully decentralized and secure way. Read on… Redefining MATIC staking with ClayStack As staking for Polygon happens on the Ethereum mainnet - yet most users hold their MATIC on Polygon - this leaves many with limited unstaking options. To unstake and get your MATIC back, users can rely on bridging MATIC tokens…or swapping them on a DEX, where sometimes for even low amou

Magnify #17: Build Back Better

FTX’s collapse exposes one major challenge that needs solving in Web3. And it’s not what most people think. The FTX saga was fuelled by a man’s vision to make money “by any means possible” and then use it to solve the world’s greatest challenges. In short, SBF was a self-proclaimed Robin Hood of the world whose sole objective was to make money off the rich to enrich himself and whoever he wanted to help. For him, most of this help was directed toward Joe Biden, to whom he had become a significa

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Magnify #16: What is Product Zeitgeist Fit and Why it matters for Web3

You’ve already heard of Product-Market-Fit (PMF). But today, you’ll learn about Product Zeitgeist Fit (PZF). Get your coffee and enjoy the ride. h/t to @DCoolican for his amazing explanation around PZF. You can find that here. This article extends my understanding of PZF - with Web3-native examples. So what is PZF? In simple terms, it is the fitting of the product to people’s emotions and directly catering to what they care about. Remember those short bursts of moments (Clubhouse 😏) when pe

#ClayStackReborn is HERE!

To stand out, you must chase excellence. This is a common saying behind ClayStack’s doors. In an emerging and competitive industry such as DeFi, this has become ever too crucial. Standing out doesn’t mean just being bold or just building a better product, or just hacking some marketing tactics - it means a combination of all things. To further enhance our user experience, we are proud to announce the rebirth of ClayStack. New brand identity fuels an exciting new experience for our users. Welc